DOI
10.21768/ejopa.v6i2.5
Abstract
In this article, the authors examine opportunities and tensions that arose when youth co-researchers, collaborating in two in-depth, qualitative, participatory research studies, challenged modalities for sharing literacy research findings in academic forums such as peer-reviewed journals and at professional conferences. The authors frame the youths’ contributions as new forms of civic participation, highlighting the ways in which the youth co-researchers—Black youth and youth of color in a large city in the northeastern United States—sought to: (1) share research findings with “kids like us,” and (2) make the research relevant across multiple contexts. The article discusses implications for researchers and educators who seek to involve youth as designers, creators, and distributors of publicly engaged knowledge with communities grounded in partnership and reciprocity
Recommended Citation
Marciano, Joanne E. and Watson, Vaughn W. M.
(2017)
"“Now We Need to Write Something that People Will Read”: Examining Youth Choices as Perspectives of Literacy Research,"
eJournal of Public Affairs: Vol. 6:
Iss.
2, Article 5.
DOI: 10.21768/ejopa.v6i2.5
Available at:
https://bearworks.missouristate.edu/ejopa/vol6/iss2/5
